12 Kasım 2015 Perşembe

Open Source Conference in Turkey

Open SourceConferencewas organizedthis yearfor the first timein Ankara - capital of Turkey -. Conference is going to take 5 days, it's started 9th november and it's going to end 13th november. The conference aimsto bring togetherkey peoplein the public sector, to announce works on open sourceandfree software like Pardus, enGerek, Lider Ahenkand to raise awareness. The Conference is local and unfortunately it hasn't any English websites. I hope they will add soon.

The first day of the conference i've given a talk about LibreOffice. LibreOffice is one of the most important points for Turkey. LibreOffice is an important step for spreading of free softwares. Because this office suit can run on GNU/Linux, MacOs, and Windows. LibreOfficewill take an importantrole in the migrationtofree operating systems.

There was noactivework onLibreOfficein Turkey until recently. Now there is a team in my University who works for LibreOffice. We are studying to learn LibreOffice, fixing the bugs and spreading our work and LibreOffice by blog posts and other social media tools. Thanks to Necdet Yücel for advising us in this process and thanks to helpfull LibreOffice development team. You can access my presentation from here. My presentation includes following parts:

In this part i've told principles of free software and why are they important for us.
LibreOffice Turkish translation rate is 100% and this is the most important necessity if we want to spread LibreOffice in Turkey. (Thanks to Turkish translation team)
No licence fee. I tried to explainthis partvery carefully. Because nothingshouldtake precedence overLibreOffice is a free software. LibreOffice needs money to continue too.LibreOfficeisimprovedenough to coverthe needs and changable according to neccessaries.